It is illegal for a host website to intervene or interfere with private messages and correspondence between it's users. This would include the deletion of unread e-mails (and for simplicity I am excluding the situation relating to users deleted after communicating.)

However, when it comes to taps I find that when I log on there are often a few taps which have been "timed out" and which I cannot identify unless I pay. This is illegal because a tap is a form of private communication as much as saying "hi" is between two members and that having been initially accessible for an hour or so by the recipient if online they are deemed to have been sent and received.

Whilst Grindr can, of course, only allow the sending of Taps by those who pay, the effective deleting of them after being sent is an abusive and illegal interference in private communication between members.

This situation is exacerbated by the fact that after logging off ones online presence does not instantly switch off resulting in the other person send the taps believing one is online.

This is surely illegal and needs to be addressed.